Bin Laden was both wealthy and reasonably well‑educated.
When his father died in 1968, Osama inherited several million dollars - a substantial sum in that era.
I assumed, at the time of the Twin Towers Debacle, that Osama was baiting us.
I assumed that he thought that we would launch a "Crusade" and that once that "Crusade" was launched, it would spawn myriad local Islamist resistance actions, and that the United States of America would slink away, tail between its legs and let Islam be Islam.
donnie's war notwithstanding we have: Several trillion dollars of piss in the wind and a lot of dead Americans, that's pretty much where we are.
